The stories and posts in this column of the website of Gerle Financial Communications deal with the life insurance business, specifically in Germany.
What are the (regulatory) changes that independent insurance intermediaries and brokers will face in Germany by 2030? What consequences will the EU’s Retail Investment Strategy have for Sales? And how…
On average women can expectof only 800 euros from the German state pension - men, on the other hand, almost 1,200 euros. Gender pay and gender pension gaps are unfortunately…
What should the optimal sustainable fund for retirement planning look like? Standard Life and Franklin Templeton have asked themselves this question and created a new fund based on this premise.…
Germany has voted - but what does the result mean for the life insurance industry and pension provision as a whole? On behalf of our client Standard Life Versicherung, we…
"The topic of sustainability has arrived with force in the financial industry": In this two-part audio interview (in German only) at the invitation of our client Standard Life, Marc Glissmann,…
The new, third episode of GFC (not the 'Global Financial Crisis') Podcast is about financial market regulation, the still threatening commission cap for life insurance and the EU taxonomy (and…
One of the few positive effects of the coronavirus crisis and lockdown during recent months was that I had more time to take up new things - like creating an…
Regulation, commission caps, digitalisation - the topics discussed by seven top-class representatives from politics, consumer protection and financial associations at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin at the invitation of…
Which effect do the political and economical centrifugal forces of Europe have on pensions in Germany? It seems to be a platitude that Europe is going through challenging times –…
